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2014 Rewrite project

The 2014 edition of the Guidelines was developed by the Legislation Advisory Committee (remodelled in 2015 into the Legislation Design and Advisory Committee) during the course of 2014 with funding from the Parliamentary Counsel Office and support from the Law Commission. The 2014 edition of the Guidelines was approved by the LAC on 17 September 2014.

The previous 2001 edition of the Guidelines is available here for reference. The 2014 edition of the Guideilnes is the current edition that departments and agencies should use.

The Legislation Design and Advisory Committee is preparing supplementary material to support the Guidelines. It will contain a more substantive account of the principles, legal rules and other factors to be considered that are set out in the Guidelines so as to provide policy officials, their legal advisers and others with a more thorough understanding of the justification for individual guidelines. It will contain case law, academic discussion, examples and links to external sources. This substantive document will draw on previous versions of the Guidelines, ensuring that the existing knowledge is not lost.